"What is Education"

"What is Education" explained by @mediacrooks on the Smriti Irani HRD Ministry Controversy.

1. What is education? Its a question that most people should ask and start defining it as best as possible..

2. Education in simple terms is a process that helps you face "life situations" .. with knowledge and skills...

3. Formal education like school, college, PG.. etc puts a person through a qualifying process in acquiring knowledge and skills..

4. Not everyone needs to follow that formal education system.. but choose alternative systems for acquiring knowledge and skills..

5. The purpose of "education" is to make a child a "life long learner" .. through a formal system or through the choice of the individual..

6. Gates, Jobs dropped out of their own free will b/c they realised their calling lay somewhere else and a different form of learning

7. The truly uneducated are those who stop reading or learning after school or college.. Therefore the Q is... Is Smriti Irani a learner?

8. The answer is Smriti Irani dropped out after school and chose her calling from which to learn and face life situations... Thats education

9. Has Smriti Irani followed her pursuits and learned the knowledge and skills to perform? Her success suggests she definitely has..

10. Worse are those who stop learning at some point.. They will be uneducated if their learning process stops at some point in life..

11. To call Smriti "uneducated" is a poor understanding of "Education" itself... Whether she will perform.. that the future will tell.. END.

12. Even Modi didnt go thru the "formal" education as we know it..When he realised it will be handy he went thru some corresp course.. isnt it?